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Health Worker Shortage

Health Worker Shortage

"I am still trying to work with passion, but the conditions are demoralising. The workload increases by the day. On top of that, since 2003, there are two vacant posts for professional nurses in this clinic. If it was not because I am motivated, nearly a militant supporting the ARV roll out, I would have left long ago." – Mpumelelo Mantangana, 48, Professional Nurse, Ubuntu TB/HIV Clinic, Khayelitsha, South Africa In May 2007, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) released a study on the impact of the lack of health workers on providing HIV/AIDS treatment in southern Africa, the heart of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. The information was gathered from MSF HIV/AIDS-treatment programs in...
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MSF Activity Report 2010

20 July 2011
MSF Activity Report 2010
MSF Activity Report 2010
Open publication - Free publishing - More 2010 The International Activity Report 2010 gives details of the worldwide operational activities of Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF). Overall, 27,650 MSF staff members worked on 427 projects in 60 countries, bringing medical assistance to people affected by natural disaster, armed conflict and epidemics. Our teams carried out some 7.3 million outpatient consultations and over 58,000 surgical interventions.  
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HELP WANTED! Confronting the health care worker crisis to expand access to HIV/AIDS treatment

03 May 2006
HELP WANTED! Confronting the health care worker crisis to expand access to HIV/A
HELP WANTED! Confronting the health care worker crisis to expand access to HIV/AIDS treatment
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) began providing antiretroviral therapy (ART) in 2000 and has today reached over 80,000 people in more than 30 countries. However, efforts to further increase access to treatment and maintain and improve quality of care are coming up against a wall due to the severe shortage of health workers. This is contributing to unnecessary illness and death.
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by Dr. Radut.